APEX: automated policy enforcement eXchange

: APEX: Automated Policy Enforcement eXchange Steven J. Simske, Helen Balinsky HP Laboratories HPL-2010-134 Policy, Text Analysis, Policy Server, Policy Editor, Document Systems, Document System Components, Security The changing nature of document workflows, document privacy and document security merit a new approach to the enforcement of policy. We propose the use of automated means for enforcing policy, which provides advantages for compliance and auditing, adaptability to changes in policy, and compatibility with a cloud-based exchange. We describe the Automated Policy Enforcement eXchange (APEX) software system, which consists of: (1) a policy editor, (2) a policy server, (3) a local daemon on every PC/laptop to maintain local secure up-to-date storage and policy, and (4) local (policy-enforcing) wrappers to capture document-handling user actions such as document export, e-mail, print, edit and save. During the performance of relevant incremental change, or other user-elicited act...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: DOCENG
• Authors: Steven J. Simske, Helen Balinsky
• Keywords: Automated Policy Enforcement, DOCENG 2010, Document, Document Analysis, Policy